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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in West Vancouver, DM
Detailed mother tongue (232) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue 42,130 35,925 35 5,070 1,105
Single responses 41,530 35,475 30 4,920 1,100
English 28,280 25,005 0 3,250 15
French 540 45 10 485 0
Non-official languages 12,710 10,420 20 1,185 1,085
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 790 605 0 170 10
Italian 250 175 0 70 0
Portuguese 60 45 0 15 0
Romanian 65 45 0 15 5
Spanish 415 340 0 70 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,485 1,190 0 290 5
Dutch 225 165 0 65 0
Flemish 15 5 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 965 770 0 185 5
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 230 205 0 25 0
Danish 115 100 5 10 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 40 0 0 0
Swedish 65 60 0 5 0
Afrikaans 45 40 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 925 770 5 125 30
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 5
Bulgarian 25 25 0 0 0
Croatian 70 55 0 5 5
Czech 140 105 0 25 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 250 210 0 40 5
Russian 200 160 0 25 15
Serbian 45 40 0 0 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 15 0 0 0
Slovak 60 50 5 5 0
Slovenian 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 90 80 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 5 0
Greek 70 50 0 10 0
Armenian 85 60 0 20 5
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 190 165 0 20 5
Estonian 35 30 0 5 5
Finnish 60 55 0 0 0
Hungarian 100 85 0 10 0
Turkic languages 145 120 0 20 5
Azerbaijani 35 30 0 0 0
Turkish 110 85 0 20 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 175 140 0 30 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 175 140 0 30 5
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 145 120 0 25 5
Hebrew 20 15 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,720 3,210 5 295 210
Indo-Aryan languages 385 350 0 20 10
Bengali 10 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 110 100 0 10 5
Hindi 45 40 0 5 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 85 0 5 5
Sindhi 60 55 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 65 65 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 3,330 2,850 10 270 200
Kurdish 10 15 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 3,310 2,840 10 270 200
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 10 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 15 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 250 230 0 15 10
Korean 880 725 0 40 115
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,460 2,650 0 125 685
Chinese languages 3,455 2,645 0 125 685
Cantonese 640 535 0 45 60
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 10 10 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 5
Mandarin 1,320 945 0 40 335
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 90 70 0 0 20
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,395 1,085 0 40 270
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 25 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 410 400 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malay 35 30 0 5 5
Pampango 10 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 335 330 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 15 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 10 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 10 5 0 5 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 600 450 5 150 0
English and French 60 10 0 45 0
English and non-official language 480 415 0 60 0
French and non-official language 35 10 5 20 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 0 20 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011035.

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